Article describes Judge Thomas A. Smart who purchased land in the 1830s where downtown Kansas City would someday be. Smart also ran a store on the levee and eventually sold his land to Col. Thomas Swope....

Partial frontal view of the building at 1601 Genessee. Label on reverse side says "1910-architect: Wilder & Wight." "Construction began in 1909 and the building was finished in 1911--a nine story, brick...